Loaf Bakery, Downing St — Restaurant in Waverley

I'm at the stage of life where I have started to question whether I could sue Sainsbury's over their use of the word "artisanal" in their bakery products but not quite at the stage where I'm willing to invest half of my retirement fund into installing a set of 2 tonne wind powered milling wheels into an outbuilding on my property so I can make my own flour. Luckily (for me at least), there exists an establishment to bridge this gap in my life, and that establishment is Loaf.

The selection of breads is great, and priced on par with the low grade supermarket equivalent you'll have to drive out of town to find.

If you prefer your carbs with a side order of type 2 diabetes then they also have you covered, there were glorious looking buns, tarts and other such sticky delights.

The staff were awesome too. The youth of the woman who served me belied her expertise in the sourdough surprise she was about to sell me. If it weren't so delicious her serving suggestions might have been viable, but I'd eaten most of it by the time...

Only the one table under a shelter outside the door, there is probably room for one more as its quite spacious there. I enjoyed a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich, made with very fresh bread, perfect smoky bacon and juicy fresh tomato. I had a Reese's peanut butter cookie which was huge but very moreish, both of which were served in paper bags with the sandwich in a little plastic inlay in the bag. The coffee was served in a cardboard takeaway cup with a cardboard drinkthrough lid, but that was also perfect, just as I like it. The 3 items came to £11 altogether, but it is well...

5 stars for food but 0 turn off stars for kindness! Unfortunately after buying my bread there for years once a week and I kindly was shown the toilet once I told my daughter today where the loo was while I waited in the queue. The staff asked her to get out of the loo at once and said that it is not for the public. Unbelievable how unfriendly. I was under the impression that there might be a coffee area around the corner so did not think at all that it could have been a staff toilet only. Shame about the staffs attitude being...